Cloth measuring and tubing machine



Oct. 17, 1944. G. w. LANE 2,360,609

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' Oct. 17, 1944.

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Patented Oct. 17, 1944 CLOTH MEASUING AND TUBING MACHINE George W. Lane, Clifton, N. J., assignor to Van Vlaanderen Machine Co.Paterson, N. J., a corporation of New Jersey Original application September 11, 1942, Serial No. 457,985. Divided and this application January 22, 1944, Serial No. 519,355

6 Claims. .(Cl. 242-55) This application is a division of my application for patent for cloth measuring and tubing machine Serial No. 457,985, filed September 11, 1942,

The invention relates to machines for winding fabric on successive cores, particularly Vin the state for delivery to the selling trade, for which purpose it is desired that, the lengths of the fabrics in the different wound masses being the same, all the masses shall be wound so as nearly as possible to have the same density.

For this purpose the machine ofthis invention contemplates presence therein, with a rotary drum around which the fabric is to extend and means to hold the fabric in contact with and against slippage relatively to its periphery, and With a rotary core on which to wind the fabric, means by which to drive the core from the drum through slip-friction which is capable of being varied manually by the attendant. Thereby, though as the wound fabric mass being formed on the core tends to rotate at a constantly increasing peripheral speed, with attendant increase in tension on the fabric and increasey in density of the wound mass, the operator may from time to time, by adjustment of the mentioned-slip-friction core-driving means, compensate for such tendency so as to attain tension which during each operation will as nearly as possible approximate constancy and a state of density which in a succession of the wound masses will be substantially uniform. In carrying out my invention I have constructed the machine specifically as follows: The drum has its axis horizontal and the fabric, being delivered from below the drum, extends over the drum and then down under a vfreely rotative roll parallel with the drum (and which affords in part the means to hold the fabric in contact with and against slippage relatively to the drums periphery) and then up to the core, which is also parallel with the drum; the drum, being suitably driven, drives the core through atransmission including a clutch comprising coaxial clutchmembers whose axis is also parallel with the drum and one of which is driven by the drum and the other of which drives the clutch; and

' y the manual adjustment of the clutch is effected by a clamping means including a screw axially related to the two clutch members and having a manually operated nut. Thereby, the nut being ject to friction resistance) during the winding,

should be rchecked instantly when the drum is stopped by stopping the motor, else the fabric would overrun. Hence, my invention further contemplates control means so devised that, When moved in one direction, it will stop the motor and brake said core and, when moved in the opposite direction, it will start the motor and release the core. Y

In the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the improved machine, partly broken away; f

Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof with a part of the near standard broken away;

`Fig. 3 shows the winding means mainly in longitudinal section;

Fig. 4'is a section on line 4-4 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 shows the electric circuit; and

Fig. 6 is an enlarged view of parts Which include the clutch-member 4I appearing in Fig. 1 'and viewed the same as in that figure.

The frame includes two standards I connected by bars 2. What Il term a carrier-rack is varranged to slide from one toward the other standard Vand comprises a rail 3 connecting a pair of uprights 4 also connected by a bar 4a, This rail adjustment of the nut may be necessary by his j other hand.

The machine will usually be driven by a motor having means to start and stop the same and the fabric-supply will usually be a mass of the fabric wound on a core or beam. This core, while more or less free to turn (though preferably subhas vrunners 3a which rest on rollers la journaled in the standards, the left-hand one being toothed to form a rack and the corresponding roller existing as a pinion engaged with such rack and having a hand-wheel Ib whereby manually Vto shift the carrier-rackV laterally so that the selvages of the fabric may be lined up by the operator with the ends of the wound mass being formed. So much is the usual construction. The carrier-rack is supported in upright position by having the upper ends' of its uprights engaged with a shaft 2| to be referred to, said uprights having open bearings 5 to receive the shaft 6 of a beam or core 'l on which the supply-mass of fabric a is wound.

In the left-hand standard is journaled the axial portion 8 of a pair of peripherally grooved drums 9 and Il), the rotary element thus formed constituting a support for and having a socket 8a to receive the adjoining squared end of the shaft 6, whereby such support forms a chuckconfined to rotate with the beam 1. Fixed studs Il, one below and the other above said element, project from the frame and to the lower one of these a band or strap I2 is connected, the upper terminal of the band penetrating the other stud and being threaded and having a nut i3 for tightening the band, which, between the studs, bears against the periphery of the drum 9. Thus a brake is formed which, on adjustment of the nut, opposes some constant frictional resistance to rotation of the beam and hence the delivery of the fabric wound thereon, A pair of semicircular brake-shoes i4 pivoted to upper stud Il `member'of the chuck). `plugfmemberfare both ellipticalin cross-section and of such dimensions that each may rotate V55 4| :journaled in the `standard and having a clutch-diski'42 fast thereto. A sprocket-disk 43 is rotative on clutch member 4| and between the disks 42-43 and fast to one of them is a felt I 9 of a solenoid 2|] or equivalent electrically ener- V'510 gized means. In short, there is -a twin-.clutch the drum 9 of which (and hence thebeamf'l'l is subject to constant resistance to rotationfjanli the drum l0 of which is subject to resistance to rotation only on call.

Ata suitable elevationabove and somewhat rearward of the beam 21 there is journa'led'in the 'frame the shaft 2| of a measuring drum -22.

`The fabric is to extend over and well around "this drum, .as back of it and then down --and 120 under an idleroll 23 forward of the drum and journaled vin the frame, then back and forth '.around guide-bars -24l supported in suitable brackets 25 and then to the core b` onto which the fabric is finally wound for'deliverytothej25 customer. In the upper part of the carrier-'rack a pressure roll 22a (Fig. 2) is journaled 'and under the pressure of-springsf22b holds/the fabric pressed againstthe drum.

lThecore b is a pasteboardcylindrical'tube'one.,30

end of which is to be engaged with an idle chuck 26 journaled in .a bracket v2`| ycarried by the guide-bars. Its other end is .to be engaged with .an active-'chuckfullyset forth in my-applica `tionSerial 'No.457,986 andwhichfor the? present .-351the-wrapping will continue; to .take up slack in purpose may be describedas follows: -A socket member 23 -(here :the driving r`member l.ofthe chuck) -having-afsocket proper-28a has an a-xial .spindle (29 received in the axial 'bore `of and splinedat'29a-to a rotary tubular member here t0 formed in 'two jparts v3|) Aand 3Ua'journaled1by Vball-bearings 3| in-a housingv 32 carrie'd by one Aof-the standards 33 being -a spring between Vtheleft-handend'of the `spindle andthe closed *end'of the :shaft-bore. Both the idle chuck'and l5 Vthe felement Yformed by parts A3|l--30a .are of -course conned by the supporting structure against vdisplacement apart, n-as shown. (The housingf32may be formed'open at the topto admit -a clock 15B to be referred-to.) turnin -the 'socketvon astud coaxial therewith is a /tapered-plugmember (here the driven The socket #proper .fand

completely independently of the Y other except when the end of the core is introduced-'intdthe slot36 between them in which case, if the socket member isturned while the ,plug-members rotahumps35a ofthe plug 'member will coactwith whatfare in eiect humps at y2&1- of the socket member to clamp the^core-end-between them. Theactive chuck being at rest,the'end of the end' of the core can be alinedwith theidle chuck. 4When the socket member of the active chuck theactive chuck.

.A motor 31, supportedby the left-hand standard, has its shaft `38 connected by a :sprocketand-chaindrive 39with the shaft 2| of drum :22.

AFree toVv 50 .tion'is resisted, as bythe fabric, -the -lobesor 60 core (tilted) is entered thereto and the core 65 lmanipulated -to displace the :parts 28-29-'34 against the tensionoffthe spring -until the other v.isnow rotated'thecore .will be-now "rotated by 70 -or .the like friction-disk M. A shaft 45 pencltratesthe clutch member 4| axially, having a nut 46 formed with a hand-wheel 46a, and

rscrewed y,on its -outer end and abutting said llstandardandr'aihead (here in the form of a nut 4'1fon' its inner end), and between such head and-.disk vr43 'is a spring 48; by turning the nut AS1-the drivenmember (sprocket disk 43) of the :clutchl thusrformed is gripped more or less tight-- ly Vby the driving member 4| with its indicated 'f means for clamping the driven clutch-member.

43ans a sprocket-chain engaged with the sprocketfdisk..43on Athe driven clutch-member l.and also with.a-sprocketwheel-49 on the part -3|la of the active chuck for :driving core b.

'.50 .isaa 'clock contained in housing 32 and geared A`in some way (not shown) with the measuring drum shaft 2|.

..On the forward bar `2 may be fulcrumed-a -treadle.5| whoseforward end may bevnormally held elevated, asby a springA 52 (Fig. l) lWhen .the-treadle `is `depressed it closes themotor circuit..53 and opens the solenoid circuit V54 and whenin its normal :state it maintains the motor ...circuit open and the solenoidcircuit closed; .the

`treadle vthus forms .a circuit-closer.

.Assume Athat the core b-is heldfbetweenithe Atwo chucks, 4with the .upper end of .the fabric wrappedaroundthe core sufliciently tightly so lthatvwhenrrotation of the core is now started the yfabric vthe operator may vturn the socket membenbya hand-wheel` 30h von part 30,.itbe

.ing .assumed that in entering the core to vthe A--socketfmember its end is somewhatideformed andA thus:.gripped thereby. The treadle is now depressed .Y and the motor drives the measuring -drumzthrough ,the Ypart of the transmission con- `necting Athemand.the,measuring drum drives the. chuck and henceithe core through that part .ofthe transmission which connects them. .The depressing ,ofthe treadle leaves the delivery` core .'Irsubiectto .the adjustable .braking action of the.means..9|2, wherebyoverrunning of such core .-,is prevented, but .such .depression de-ener- .gizes .thesolenoidso that v.thebraking effect of ,the.members |4.becomes.inactive. The winding `of lthefabric onl core b'therefore proceeds; dur- .justing .the,.pressure exerted on clutch-member :43 .(to w-it,.by fhand-wheel 45) the operator can determine the density .of ,the wound mass being Iformed. `When the winding is completed the treadle..is -allowed to rise, which cuts out the .motonbut'energizes vthe solenoid, whereby the rotation y. of` the. fabric supply .is checked. When .the winding vhas been completedfon any core b the fabric liscut .to permit removal of the wound mass and substitution of an empty core.

.Thespringis'present not only to permit ready entry of the core. to Yand/its removal from the .two .chucks butto maintain the distortion of the core end and hence displacementv of a part .or

By gearing40 Ishaft2| drives 4a clutchmember l75 .parts vthereof within the range of a hump or humps of the driving member of the active chuck in the case Where, as here, the part of the driven member which is in telescoped relation to said core end is tapered lengthwise thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In combination, supporting structure, a rotary drum journaled therein, means to hold the fabric being Wound in contact With and against slippage relatively to the periphery of the drum, a chuck, journaled in said structure, to engage and rotate a core onto which to wind the fabric, and means, journaled in said structure, to transmit rotation from the drum to the chuck including rotary driving and driven clutch members in frictional contact vvith each other and manually adjustable means to urge one of said members under variable pressure against the other.

2. The combination set forth in claim 1 characterized by said members being coaxial.

3. In combination, supporting structure, a rotary drum journaled therein, means to hold the fabric being wound in contact with and against slippage relatively to the periphery of the drum, a chuck, journaled in said structure, to engage and rotate a core onto which to wind the fabric, and means, j ournaled in said structure, to transmit rotation from the drum to the chuck including coaxial driving and driven clutch members in frictional contact With each other and manually adjustable means, extending axially through said members, for clamping them together under variable pressure.

4. In combination, supporting structure, a rotary drum journaled therein, means to hold the fabric being Wound in Contact with and against slippage relatively to the periphery of the drum, a chuck, journaled in said structure, to engage and rotate a Vcore onto which to Wind the fabric.

and means to transmit rotation from the drum to the chuck including a rotary driving clutch member journaled in said structure, a driven clutch member coaxial and in frictional contact with the driving clutch member, and manually adjustable means, extending axially through the driving clutch member, for clamping said members together under variable pressure.

5. In combination, supporting structure, rotary means journaled therein and including a rotary core for a Wound supply of sheet material, a rotary drum, also journaled in said structure, for exerting pulling effort on said material, means to hold said material in tractive engagement with the periphery of the drum, a motor for rotating the drum operatively connected therewith, braking means settable into braking or releasing relation to the first-named means, and means movable in one direction to start the motor and free the braking means and in the opposite direction to stop the motor and apply the braking means.

6. In combination, supporting structure, rotary means journaled therein and including a rotary core for a Wound supply of sheet material, a rotary drum, also journaled in said structure, for exerting pulling effort on said material, means to hold said material in tractive engagement With the periphery of the/drum, an electric motor having its driven element operatively connected with the drum to drive the same, electrically energized means to brake the first-named means, a branched circuit including the motor and lastnamed means in its respective branches, and a circuit-closer movable in one direction to close one branch and open the other and in the other to open the former branch and close the other branch.

GEORGE W. LANE. 

